Shephard · May 2026
Reports U.S. Army and USAF testing Deepnight’s AI-enabled imaging capability for low- and no-light operations.
Building The Next Generation of Night Vision Devices
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Deepnight is a San Francisco-based AI night-vision startup that builds digital night vision cameras/software by running AI models on commodity CMOS sensors and edge AI chips, replacing or outperforming traditional analog image intensifier tubes in very low-light conditions.
Primary product
AI-powered digital night vision cameras and software
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
11-50 employees
Industry
Embedded Software Products
Sub-industry
AI night vision / computational imaging
Offices
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Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$6M
Latest round
Seed · Feb 2025
Latest amount
$5.5M
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & President
Chief Scientist
VP of Sales
Investors
Mission-driven and engineering-heavy, with a cross-functional team spanning AI, embedded software, optics, and electrical engineering to ship real hardware rather than only models.
Pricing
Defense/enterprise contract sales and partner-led B2B software deployment
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
≈$1.2M estimated ARR
Shephard · May 2026
Reports U.S. Army and USAF testing Deepnight’s AI-enabled imaging capability for low- and no-light operations.
Circle Optics · Apr 2026
Announces a deployment with Deepnight supporting counter-UAS operations across Barksdale AFB and Barry M. Goldwater Range, highlighting Deepnight’s edge AI night-vision capability.
PRWeb / Picogrid · Nov 2025
Describes a partnership integrating Deepnight software-defined night vision into edge sensors for base defense and noting a $1.7M DoW contract.
GlobeNewswire / Deepnight · Feb 2025
Funding announcement for the $5.5M seed round led by Initialized Capital with Y Combinator and angel investors participating.
TechCrunch · Feb 2025
Explains the founding story, early federal contracts, software-first model, and investor mix behind Deepnight’s AI night-vision startup.